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TIL Sun And Moon Activity Cause Earthquakes

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AD0md TIL Kodak discovered the US was testing atomic bombs because the corn husks used for packing material were fogging film because they had been exposed to radiation.
e0K15 TIL That ACME in the Looney Tunes Cartoons was supposed to be ironic. Acme comes from a Greek word meaning "pinnacle" or "peak" implying "the peak of greatness" and that the product would be the best you could get. Any product with the name in the show was guaranteed to fail spectacularly.
nJwY TIL That upon his death President Dwight D. Eisenhower requested to be buried in a standard issue $80 coffin while wearing his army uniform. Despite being one of the most decorated men in the military he was only buried in the medals he earned on D-Day.
b9kNa TIL that by the end of the Napoleonic Wars, France was conscripting men shorter than five feet (1.5 m) tall.
1O4 TIL that when she was five years old, Tina Fey was slashed in the face with a knife by a random stranger.